diff --git a/HISTORY.md b/HISTORY.md
index a300611b5..1fc3431e7 100644
--- a/HISTORY.md
+++ b/HISTORY.md
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 # Rocksdb Change Log
 ## Unreleased
 
+## 8.0.0 (02/19/2023)
 ### Behavior changes
 * `ReadOptions::verify_checksums=false` disables checksum verification for more reads of non-`CacheEntryRole::kDataBlock` blocks.
 * In case of scan with async_io enabled, if posix doesn't support IOUring, Status::NotSupported error will be returned to the users. Initially that error was swallowed and reads were switched to synchronous reads.
diff --git a/include/rocksdb/version.h b/include/rocksdb/version.h
index ac6be04a9..86cd84bce 100644
--- a/include/rocksdb/version.h
+++ b/include/rocksdb/version.h
@@ -12,7 +12,7 @@
 // NOTE: in 'main' development branch, this should be the *next*
 // minor or major version number planned for release.
 #define ROCKSDB_MAJOR 8
-#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 0
+#define ROCKSDB_MINOR 1
 #define ROCKSDB_PATCH 0
 
 // Do not use these. We made the mistake of declaring macros starting with